VietNamNet Bridge - Tropical storm Haima, which landed in northern and central Vietnam on June 24-25, killed at least 16 people, leaving 4 others missing, and hundreds injured.

Twenty-five people were killed in northeastern Nigeria as three bombs exploded, media reported on Sunday.

Catfish prices have gone down but many farmers in the Mekong Delta are forced to sell due to the pressure from the high interest rates on bank loans.

VietNamNet Bridge – How to deal with the cases, where people exploit the preferences offered to diplomatic agencies to evade tax, is now a big headache to the Ministry of Finance. 

Hundreds of candles were lighted, hundreds of fans sang together Michael Jackson’s “We Are The World” at the show to commemorate the King of Pop’s second death anniversary in Hanoi on June 25.

Thailand's Election Commission chairman Apichart Sukhagganond said that he is satisfied with the advance voting which largely went on smoothly throughout the country Sunday.

Ha Noi real estate reaches bargain prices; State Bank keeps lid on credit growth, interest rates; Pepper exports forecast to double; Distributors forge links to producers; Investor attention drawn to Government bonds  

With the number of premature babies increasing, Tu Du Obstetrics Hospital in HCM City wants the Health Insurance Fund to subsidise the care of such children aged between six months and two years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Fansipan is the highest mountain in Vietnam and Indochina, at 3,143 meters. It is located in Lao Cai province in northwest Vietnam, 9km southwest of Sa Pa Township in the Hoang Lien Son Mountain Range.

Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had accepted of not being part of the negotiation process, according to the communiqué issued by the meeting of the African Union (AU) High-Level ad hoc Committee on Libya in Pretoria

The inflation for food items in Latin America and the Caribbean reached 7.4 percent in May this year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday.

The eurozone debt crisis poses the greatest risk to the stability of Britain's financial system and banks should increase capital reserves during strong earnings periods, Bank of England Governor Sir Mevyn King said on Friday

Bird flu was discovered at a poultry farm in the central Dutch province of Flevoland, the Ministry of Agriculture said Friday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Downpours and water from upper Laos created flooding in mountain districts in the central province of Nghe An. Hundreds of families have lost their houses.

China has always insisted that the East Sea disputes be dealt with through bilateral negotiations and has developed a “two nos” policy regarding the settlement of disputes in the East Sea: no multilateral negotiations and no “internationalization”.

The US dollar-Vietnamese dong exchange rate is expected to hold steady to the end of this year, but ANZ and Standard Chartered banks anticipates a dong devaluation early next year.

The country's three largest mobile service providers, VinaPhone, MobiFone and Viettel, confirmed they had a growing number of 3G subscribers after nearly two years of providing the service.

Four Vietnamese documentaries will be aired on Discovery channel in the Asia-Pacific region as of May 5 2011, said producer Ha Thuc Van.

While most enterprises have to cut down expenses in the economic downturn; some luxurious brands still spend hundreds of thousands dollars, or even millions of dollars to organize events to polish their images.

European Union (EU) leaders formally endorsed Italy's Mario Draghi to be the next president of the European Central Bank (ECB) on Friday.